March 15, 2026, 6:28 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
Elijah Wilkinson won\u2019t be handed the starting job at right tackle for the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> this season, but it\u2019s fair to say he\u2019s the very early leader in the clubhouse.<\/p>\n Wilkinson, who played every snap (1,096) in that spot for the Falcons last season, signed a two-year contract worth $6.25 million during the first week of the league year.<\/p>\n Christian Jones, a fifth-round pick in 2024, shows promise, but he hasn\u2019t been able to stay healthy during his first two seasons in Arizona.<\/p>\n There has been no word yet on whether Kelvin Beachum will continue his career and whether the Cardinals want him back. Last year, he didn\u2019t sign until April 3.<\/p>\n Between now and the draft, there will surely be endless words about the Cardinals selecting a tackle with the third overall choice in the third round or in subsequent rounds.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n We have the details for Wilkinson’s contract.<\/p>\n Elijah Wilkinson contract details<\/p>\n As for Wilkinson, his contract has $3.08 million guaranteed, which includes a $1.5 million signing bonus and his $1.58 million base salary this year. Other compensation in 2026 are $25,000 per-game roster bonuses for a max total of $425,000 and a $100,000 offseason workout bonus. The 2027 base salary is $2.12 million.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s salary-cap charge is $2.855 million with $$3.395 million in 2027.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 15, 2026, 6:28 p.m. MT Elijah Wilkinson won\u2019t be handed the starting job at right tackle for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,105490,101975,95896,95888,95899,96008,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-815019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagelijah-wilkinson","20":"tag-tagkelvin-beachum","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116237803344378233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}